December 19, 1914

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Features

Further Experiments on Life Without Microbes

By Jacques Boyer

Hysteria and Common Sense, The Ups and Downs of War, and more

Editorials on the use of conscription versus volunteer armies; the terrain of war, and more.

Looping the Loop in the Alps

By J. F. Springer

The Cause of Neuralgia

By Leonard Keene Hirshberg

Reinforced Concrete Pontoon

By Oliver Johnson

Strategic Moves of the War- December 11, 1914

Letter from the Military Correspondent

The Western Australian Goldfields

How Water Supplies Are Provided in a Waterless Country

By L. E. Shapcott

Alcohol as Fuel

By B. O. Jenkins

Letters from the Firing Line - The Care of the Wounded - December 19, 1914

The Care of the Wounded, by Aide de Camp Xavier Sager, Special Correspondent of Scientific Ameican, at the Front

The German Military Telephone System

By H. Marchand

Departments

Letters

Correspondence- December 19, 1914

Departments

Inventions New and Interesting- December 19, 1914

Recently Patented Inventions- December 19, 1914

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